Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with eye cancer in each of the last five years.
The National Disease Registration Service in NHS England, as the national cancer registry, collects diagnosis and treatment data on cancer patients in England. The following table shows the number of eye cancer diagnoses, specifically of International Classification of Diseases code C69, each year from 2017 to 2021:
Year | Males | Females | Total |
2017 | 400 | 341 | 741 |
2018 | 384 | 356 | 740 |
2019 | 419 | 372 | 791 |
2020 | 338 | 297 | 635 |
2021 | 428 | 358 | 786 |
Source: these figures were taken from tables that support National Statistics publication, which are available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics/england-2021---summary-counts-only
However, health is a transferred matter, and for eye cancer diagnosis rates in Northern Ireland you may wish to contact the Department of Health.